The author for this book is listed in other sources as Aaron A. Warford.

Some advertising is likely missing from this transcription because the source copy was missing its back cover.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

The notation 1 2 for fractions was changed to 1/2.

p. 9: Sentence was moved to this page from p. 13 (Hope is like love, but subdued.)

p. 12: Table labled “‘BLACK SLAYER.’ Scene Plot. ACT FIRST.” was moved to this page from p. 13.

p. 13: Table labled “‘BLACK SLAYER.’ PROPS.” and the paragraphs immediately above and below the table were moved to this page from pp. 10-11.

p. 45: Pete. changed to (Pete.) ((Pete.) My own Rebecca,)